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THE MOBXLVG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1923
MURDER
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13 BELIEVED FOUND
Bowker Is Slain Probably in
Clackamas County.
TRACES OF BLOOD SEEN
Crime for Which Russell Hecker
Is Held Practically Fixed on
; Oregon City Itoad.
A spot 13 miles from Portland on
the Oregon City road, three miles this
Bide of Oregon City and near the city
limits of Gladstone, Is believed now
by the police to oe the place where
Frank Bowker was murdered last
Sunday night. Captain of Detectives
Harms, Inspectors Schulpius, Cason
and Barker and Deputy Sheriff Ken
dall returned last night from scouring
the country and reported their find.
-If their theory proves correct, the
burden of detection and prosecution
of Kussell Hecker will rest on Clack
amas county, as the responsibility will
be placed on the county in which the
actual crime was committed.
The officers learned of the spot
while running down another report
that blood had been found on a dif
ferent road. I. B. Johnston, an em
ploye of the Rhan-Herbert company
at Gladstone, found a large pool of
blood beside the road near the city
limits at 6:30 o'clock Monday morn
ing. He said it was large enough to
attract notice, but he paid no atten
tion to it until he read the newspapers
later in the day.
He then told about the blood spot
In Gladstone and when the officers
stopped there yesterday they heard of
the find and went to the place im
mediately. Ideal Spot for Murder.
. On. one side of the road Is a large
timber tract and on th. other is the
Southern Pacific right of way. It is
an Isolated place ana mere is no
house nearer than a quarter of a mile.
Captain Harms aid it would be an
Ideal place to commit a murder.
, Substantiating the new theory is
jl reDort that an automobile was
seen standing at practically the same
dace, headlights burning, about 10
the time the murder is supposed to
have been committed. Rains which
fell in the intervening time had
washed nearly all the blood away
and omly a faint blotch, which is very
uncertain, was found, by the officers
when they reached the spot.
Traces of Blood Found.
" This was on the gravel beside the
road, and Johnston identified the spot
as the place where he saw the blood.
Soma gravel was gathered up by the
officers and brought to Portland for
a chemical examination. The theory
will be strengthened considerably if
the gravel proves to have human
blood on it.
Captain Harms said he was almost
positive that the- murder was commit
ted there. Near the place tracks or
automobile tires were fount! at the
side of the road, and the print of the
tread was the same e.3 that on the
tires of the car Hecker drove.
Besides the circumstantial evidence
at this site, the road is one Hecker
would logically have taknn. He drove
Bowker out Eighty-second street and
said they were to meet the bootleg
ffet a mile out on the continuation
road of Eighty-second street. This
road is the Oregon City road.
Klffat Probably Occurred.
; Captain Harms said he thought it
entirely probable that Bowker would
begin to ask questions after he had
been driven out a little further than
ho thought necessary, and that the
questions would have become pointed
before they reached Gladstone. The
fight would have occurred in such
case at or near the place where the
blood was found.
The entire matter will have to rest
until the chemical analysis of the
gravel is made. The detectives made
no effort to question Hecker when
they returned and probably will not
talk with him about their discovery
ut.til the examination is finished and
the report is received from the chem
ist.
Captain Harms said ha did not be
lieve the body had been hidden in the
woods near by or anywhere else In
the vicinity, and said he thought that
the murder had been committed there
and the body taken away, probably
to some distant place.
There were no tracks leading away
from the road nor other signs, to
indicate that the murderer had left
tha highway.
Hecker Is Identified.
"When Chief of Police Jenkins re
turned last night after an all-day
search for clews ho brought with him
t. c orell, owner of Horse Shoe
park at IVoodburn.
Without hesitation O'Neil identified
Hecker as the man who drove up
to his garage at 9:30 o'clock last
Sunday night and bought gasoline
for his car. "When Hecker saw O'Neil
at the front of his cell he shifted
his gaze back and forth from floor
to ceiling and shuffled his feet ner
vously. O'Neil made a signed statement to
tha effect that while Hecker was un
screwing the gasoline tank cap he
noticed blood between the fingers of
his right hand. Hecker dropped the
cap and in his nervousness could not
find it. O'Neil in stooping down to
look under the car for it, saw blood
pots on the running board. Hecker
hurried as much as possible and flung
O'Neil two silver dollars in payment,
telling him to keep tha change, the
statement says.
IIECKEIt APPEARS IX COURT
Preliminary Hearing of Reputed
Slayer Continued to Today.
With his ruddy face covered with
a stubble of reddish beard, Hecker
appeared yesterday in municipal
ecurt for his formal preliminary
hearing. Judge Ekwall. however,
postponed the hearing until 4 P. M.
today at tha request of George Gra
ham, deputy district attorney.
Oistrtct Attorney Myers filed an
affidavit in court setting forth the
belief that Bowker's body would be
recovered within the next 24 hours,
and he petitioned for a postponement
on that ground. Counsel for the de
fense agreed to this action.
Gale S. Hill, ex-district attorney of
Linn county and lifelong friend of
the accused man, entered the case as
co-counsel for the defense with
Thomas G. Ryan. Mr.- Hill arrived
in tha city In the morning and was in
conference with Hecker for mora than
an hour in the afternoon. He is
equally as sparing in his comments
and statements concerning the casa
as Mr. Ryan.
At tha city jail, where he is held
as a material witness, I. M. Coleman.
Albany barber, talked freely of his
connection with the affair. It was t
Coleman's house that young Hecker
went early Monday morning after ha
had disposed of Bowker's body by
hurling It Into the Calopoola river two
miles southwest of Albany.
"He came to the door some time
after 2 o'clock in the morning,' Cole
man said. He asked to borrow an
overcoat for the auto ride back to
Portland. While there he gave me $65 !
which I had loaned to him last March. 4
"Just before he left he banded me .
a little flat package. This contains I
$634 which belongs to somebody else,
and I want you to keep it for me
because if I carried it I might spend
it and it isn't mine,' he told me. The
next morning I put it in a safe de
posit box n one of the Albany banks
and later turned it over to a Portland
detective.
"I am not afraid of anything so far
as my actions in this affair are con
cerned. I was in Albany all day Sun
day and Sunday night, and can easily
prove this by many persons. My wife
and I went to a picture show early
in the evening and later visited with
friends and relatives. We reached
home at about 10 o'clock that night.
"When Hecker arrived at the house
early in the morning I could detect
nothing unusual about his actions.
He seemed as calm and collected as
ever and said or did nothing which
might arouse any suspicion."
When the defense attorneys were
informed that Coleman admitted plac
ing $634 for young Hecker, they ex
pressed no concern whatever. In
fact, they appeared to take it as
something they had expected as a
matter of course.
This apparent indifference on tha
part of the defense to this new evi
dence gathered by the prosecution,
coupled with Coleman's story of his
conversation with young Becker,
leads one to believe that Hecker's ap
pearance at the Coleman home, and
the presentation of the package of
money, will play a prominent part in
the defense.
The fact that Coleman is certain
that Hecker told him the money did
not belong to him is taken by some
as being extremely significant from a
defence standpoint.
Although the police suspect that
young Hecker's story concerning the
disposal of Bowker's body is not cor
rect, the boy, through his attorneys.
continued to maintain that Bowker
bodv had been thrown into the Cala
pooia river at the point he designated
Tuesday, and that continued search is
certain to lead to Its eventual recov'
ery.
STORY OF COLEMAN VERIFIED
Handkerchief Found in Search for
Body of Frank Bowker.
ALBANY, Or.. April 20. (Special.
Efforts to clear no mysterious ques
tions regarding the disappearance
Frank Bowker of Portland, with
whose murder Russell Hecker of Al
bany is chareed, continued actively
here today. While some searching
parties kept up the work of looking
for his body in the ualapooia river,
several Portland and Multnomah
county officers worked here piecing
together bits of evidence and trying
In find new clews.
A handkerchief bearing the Initial
"R" in one corner was found today
ranch f on a submerged log In the
Calapooia river, about 100 yard)
below the bridge from wntcn Jtsow
ker'B body is supposed to have been
rolled. It bore a laundry mark "7Ui
M." Its ownership has not been es
tablished as yet.
The search in the river was some
what desultory. This afternoon Al
bert Bowker, brother of the missing
man, offered a reward of $200 for the
recovery of the body, and it was ex
pected that this would stimulate tne
search tomorrow.
Portland officers working here, as
sisted by officials of Linn county,
called a number of witnesses to
room in the Hotel Albany this after
noon and their statements were taken
down by a court reporter. Appar
ently most of these witnesses were
called to check up the story of I. M.
Coleman, local barber, who lent
Hecker some clothing early Monday
morning and received from him for
safe keeping an envelope containing
$634 in currency.
Coleman placed this envelope, un
opened, in a safe deposit box in the
Cusick bank. When officers recov
ered it last night it was found that
some of the bills bore blood splotches.
Reports indicated that Coleman's
story was verified by all witnesses
called and officers gave the impres
sion that they were convinced Cole
man had no connection with the
crime.
Officers apparently worked today
on the theory that at least one other
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man besides Hecker la involved in
Bowker's disappearance. The fact
that with the $65 Hecker gave Cole
man in paying an old debt the young
man under arrest had just hall tne
money Bowker Is known to have car
ried bore out other circumstances,
they said, that Hecker was not alone.
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May Davis last Sunday morning. Mra
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The jury's finding was tnai sirs,
Davis came to her death, "by being
violently thrown from an automobile
driven by George A. Hegman." The
reDort continues: "We find that said
George A. Hegman was under the In
fluence of intoxicating liquor ana
was driving at an excessive rate of
sDeed. We recommend that his auto
driver's license be perpetually revoked
and that he be held for the grand jury
and charged with manslaughter. We
also recommend that the 12-Mile
House be thoroughly investigated and
that the evidence in this case bo sub
mitted to tha investigating body."
Hegman. who was seriously injured
in the crash. Is in St. Vincent's hospi
tal. His condition is still serious, but
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